Unit 3: POETRY AS SOCIAL COMMENTARY

WHAT'S THAT SOUND

100

This is what kind of sound device?

ALLITERATION

200

This sentence has what kind of sound device?

They're some creeps who I wouldn't meet if you paid me a heap of cash.

ASSONANCE

300

What is the primary sound device used here?

On the plate I put a little bit of jello for me to taste and eat.

CONSONANCE

On the plate I put a little bit of jello for me to taste and eat.

400

What are TWO primary types of sound devices in the sentence (you must be able to point them out):

He clicked his tongue and then whispered, "He should feel the need to eat cheese or anything sweet."

ONOMATOPOEIA and ASSONANCE

He He clicked his tongue and then whispered, "He should feel the need to eat cheese or anything sweet."his tongue and then whispered, "He should feel the need to eat cheese or anything sweet."

500

What is the primary type of sound device used, AND what is the sound being repeated?

SOUND DEVICE: ASSONANCE

SOUND: "O" 

I'M FIGURATIVELY DYING FOR IMAGERY

100

Identify the following figurative language:

METAPHOR

200

What form of figurative language is found here:

The wind whistled through the whispy branches of the willow tree.

PERSONIFICATION

The wind whistled through the whispy branches of the willow tree.

300

What is the figurative language used here:

SIMILE

400

What type of figurative language is this:

METAPHOR

500

What type of figurative language AND imagery is used in this film clip:

Figurative language: HYPERBOLE

Imagery: touch

KNOW YOUR FORM

100

The first _____________ of the poem is circled.

STANZA

200

What kind of poem is this:

Free verse

300

The poem "Life" in the video has how many stanzas? What are they called?

TWO, QUATRAIN

400

Identify the lines that contain enjambment in the poem.

_{1. I love you.}

_{2. I'm not sure when t was that I first realized it.} 

_{3. Maybe it was last week when I saw you wearing that blue}  

_{4. shirt.} 

_{5. Maybe I shouldn't tell you,} 

_{6. But this is how I am -- I am someone who has to say stuff.} 

_{7. My feelings are very strong.} 

LINES 3-4 and LINES 5-6

_{1. I love you.}

_{2. I'm not sure when t was that I first realized it.}  

_{3. Maybe it was last week when I saw you wearing that blue}   

_{4. shirt.}  

_{5. Maybe I shouldn't tell you,}  

_{6. But this is how I am -- I am someone who has to say stuff.}  

_{7. My feelings are very strong.}

500

(1) What kind form does this poem have and why? 

(2) What does it have four of?

_{(1) It is a conventional/traditional poem because:}

      _{- there is a pattern of rhyme}

      _{- there is a set number of stanzas and lines}

 

_{(2) It has four stanzas}

CHAINED TO THE RHYTHM AND RHYME

100

What type of rhyme is this:

The splendor falls on the castle walls.

INTERNAL RHYME

The splendor falls on the castle walls.

200

Identfy the lines of the poem that contain slant rhyme:

_{1. I was not this body,}

_{2. I was not these bones.}

_{3. This skeleton was just my}

_{4. temporary home.}

_{5. Elementary molecules converged for a breath,}

_{6. then danced on beyond my individual death.}

_{7. And I am not my body,}

_{8. I am not my body.}

_{9. We are brief incarnations,}

_{10.we are clouds in clothes.}

_{11. We are water respirators,}

_{12. we are how earth knows.}

_{13. I bore light passed on from an original flame;}

_{14. while it was in my hands it was called by my name.}

_{15. But I am not my body,}

_{16. I am not my body.}

LINES 2 & 4 (bones, home)

LINES 10 & 12 (clothes, knows)

300

Identify the rhythm and meter:

ANAPESTIC TRIMETER

400

Label the rhyme scheme for the following poem:

_{That time of year thou mayst in me behold}

_{When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang} 

_{Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,} 

_{Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.} 

_{In me thou see’st the twilight of such day} 

_{As after sunset fadeth in the west;} 

_{Which by and by black night doth take away,} 

_{Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest.} 

_{In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire,} 

_{That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,} 

_{As the deathbed whereon it must expire,} 

_{Consumed with that which it was nourished by.} 

    _{This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong,}

    _{To love that well which thou must leave ere long.}

500

Identify the rhythm and meter:

Susan kicked a puppy

Trochaic Trimeter (three poetic feet of one stressed and unstressed syllables)

Susan kicked a puppy

Miscellaneous QUESTIONS

100

____________   are figures of speech that reference something famous such as a well-known person, place, event, story, art, literature, etc.

Allusions

200

___________________ is used to provide one's opinions or point of view about issues in a community.

social commentary

300

"The teacher's grading is as scary as Tr. Jessica's grading."

This is or is not an example of an allusion because _______________________________.

This is not an example of an allusion because Tr. Jessica is not know by many outside of this community.

400

Provide the social commentary here and justify it using evidence from the image or historical/cultural context.

Points awarded based on teacher assessment

500

Provide the social commentary here and justify it using evidence from the image or historical/cultural context.

Points awarded based on teacher assessment